Giving more time for nodes to upgrade before the hard fork is always good and personally I see no need to rush protocol V07 activation, especially considering our history of v06 fork watch.

To be on the safe side I would rather implement signaling via block versions and activate when we get to 75% or it would be strongly advised to have such a hard fork date at least 2 months off, around 21st of January.

p.s. Maybe there’s a project that would benefit from lower fees during this holiday season that we don’t know about? That would explain the rush to release it.